Fon Wrought Iron Figure of the War God Gu, Benin

André Fourquet, Paris
Merton D. Simpson, New York (inv. no. 1677), acquired from the above on July 28, 1969
Acquired from the above on April 1, 1989

Merton D. Simpson, advertisement, African Arts, Vol. III, No. 2, Winter, 1970, p. 8
Herbert M. Cole, Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa, Washington, D.C., 1989, p. 112, cat. no. 128
Michael Kan, African Art: Masterpieces from Private Collections, Katonah, New York, 1993, n.p. (listed)
B. Cozens, “Exhibit Touches the Richness of African Art”, The Lewisboro Ledger, December 9, 1993, p. 8
Sandra T. Barnes, Africa’s Ogun: Old World and New, Bloomington, Indiana, 1997, cover
Frank Herreman, ed., Material Differences: Art and Identity in Africa, New York, 2003, cover and p. 75, cat. no. 64
Tom Joyce and Marla C. Berns, “Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths”, Tribal Art, Vol. XXIII, No. 3 [No. 92], Summer, 2019, p. 76, fig. 17
Allen F. Roberts, Tom Joyce, and Marla C. Berns, eds, Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths, Los Angeles, 2019, p. 299, cat. no. 12.23
Allen F. Roberts, Tom Joyce, and Marla C. Berns, eds., Frapper le fer. L’art des forgerons africains, Paris, 2019, p. 299, cat. no. 12.23

National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa, October 25, 1989 - September 3, 1990
Katonah Museum of Art, African Art: Masterpieces from Private Collections, December 5, 1993 – February 27, 1994
Museum for African Art, New York, Material Differences: Art and Identity in Africa, April 10 – August 15, 2003
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths, June 3 - December 30, 2018; additional venues: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 17 - October 20, 2019; musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris, November 19, 2019 - March 29, 2020 (as Frapper le fer. L’art des forgerons africains)